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...growing about just what psychotropic drugs can do to still developing brains. Few people deny that mind pills help--ask the untold numbers who have climbed out of depressive pits or shaken off bipolar fits thanks to modern pharmacology. But few deny either that we're a quick-fix culture, and if you give us a feel-good answer to a complicated problem, we'll use it with little thought of long-term consequences...
...Touareg, VW sent technicians to the homes of Touareg owners to reassure them of the vehicle's quality. The company now has a dozen engineers in the U.S. solely to monitor the Touareg, and has appointed a board member to oversee quality issues. None of that will fix a basic Touareg glitch: its name. After dealers heard it in 2002, some begged VW to change it, fearing U.S. customers wouldn't have a clue how to pronounce it. VW has tacitly admitted that they were right. Some of the first TV ads for the Touareg parody its pronunciation (which...
...College Board wants schools to produce better writers, so the New SAT will require an essay. The board thinks grammar is important, so the new test will ask students to fix poorly deployed gerunds and such. To encourage earlier advanced-math instruction, the New SAT will go beyond basic algebra and geometry for the first time to include Algebra II class material (remember negative exponents--q(-3), for instance?). The board, a powerful group of 4,300 educational institutions--including most of America's leading universities--has undertaken an unprecedented effort to push local school districts to alter their curriculums...
...only last year. The channel airs BBC hits from Britain, such as Changing Rooms and The Office; it imports popular programs that other British broadcasters run, like the talk show So Graham Norton; and it's creating American spin-offs. An import called Ground Force, on which professional gardeners fix up a bloke's backyard, also airs as an American version with a team of gardeners digging up backyards in places like New Orleans, Miami and Bordentown, N.J. It's one of the channel's biggest hits, with a prime-time audience of about 350,000 viewers, says Paul...
Kathy Reddick, head of the Cambridge chapter of the NAACP, asked the candidates how they would fix the gaps in achievement of minority and low-income students—a problem she termed “resegregation” in Cambridge schools...